Is os.lstat available on all platforms?

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Hi there.
In a code of mine I'd like to use os.lstat whenever possible.
My only concern is if it's available on all platforms.
It could be safe using always os.lstat instead of:

try:
os.lstat
except AttributeError:
os.stat

....?
As far as I know where symlinks are not supported os.lstat should be
an alias for os.stat but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Christian Heimes]

As far as I know where symlinks are not supported os.lstat should be
an alias for os.stat but I'm not 100% sure.

You are right, it should be an alias. os.lstat is available on Windows, too.

Christian

 

[Giampaolo Rodola']

I'd just want to be sure that even on a strange python implementation
I won't ever get an AttributeError exception because os.lstat is not
defined.